At the end of the first day of the two-day European Union
summit, armed police of Gotenborg city threw rocks and
shot
into a crowd of anti-globalization protesters. One person
was seriously wounded in the stomach by Swedish police
militia.

Today I joined a non-violent protest against the police
shootings in Sweden, in front of the Swedish Embassy in
Oslo, along with various other humans. For about 15
minutes, a large group of terror policemen was effectively
blocking the road in front of us and behind us, leaving us
no escape. That seemed like
a provocation from the police ("Gotcha!"), but fortunately
everyone just kept listening to the talks, ignoring the
men, their bats, their
white helmets and their grinning dogs.

Just filed the application for transfer to Civil Service.
I'll end up serving 4 months extra duty for that, 16 months
in total.

In Norway, where I currently live, there is conscription,
as there is in half the nations of the world. It is
demanded that you make yourself available for the military
machinery of the state for 12 months and are willing to
take the lives of others and jeopardize your own.

I was disappointed, because Allchin's comments ignored all
of the reasoning behind the widespread change from the term
"free software" to the term "open source." (While there is a
lot of overlap between the ideals of the free software movement and
the open source movement,
the two are not identical.)